Posters
Viewing distance and mounting. How far away it is read from sets the type size and the resolution the file actually needs; what it is fixed to sets whether it survives a week or an afternoon.
EZ Print prints posters in Singapore, and has done since 2017. Standard sizes are A4 210 × 297 mm, A3 297 × 420 mm, A2 420 × 594 mm, A1 594 × 841 mm and A0 841 × 1189 mm, with custom sizes cut from the same rolls and sheets. Stocks are 157 gsm gloss art paper for indoor display, 310–350 gsm matt art card where the poster stands on its own, and 200 micron synthetic stock where it will meet moisture. Resolution is set by viewing distance rather than by size: 300 dpi at A3 and closer, 150 dpi at A1, and 100 dpi is honest on an A0 read from three metres. Posters can be laminated, mounted to foam PVC or board, and eyeletted. Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days, mounted or loose. Express is quoted per job. EZ Print quotes from the specification and does not publish prices.
Specifications, formats and enquiry details for each product quoted on this service.
A single printed sheet from A4 to A0 or cut to size, for walls, windows and notice boards.
Also ordered as: A1 Poster, A2 Poster, A3 Poster, Laminated Poster, Waterproof Poster, Synthetic Poster
A paper poster laid onto foam board, so it stands on an easel or hangs without a frame.
Also ordered as: Foam Board Poster, Foamboard Print, Poster Board, Custom Shape Foam Board
A photograph printed and mounted on foam board or hard board, wrapped at the edges for display.
Also ordered as: Photo Tile, Foam Board Photo Wrap, Hard Board Photo, Photo Board, Photo Block
A mounted sign at an entrance that greets guests or shows the seating plan, usually on an easel.
Also ordered as: Welcome Sign, Seating Plan Board, Wedding Welcome Sign, Event Easel Sign, Door Welcome Sign
An oversized cheque on rigid board for a donation or prize handover that has to read in a photograph.
Also ordered as: Big Cheque, Oversized Cheque, Presentation Cheque, Mock Cheque Board
Size, stock, quantity and what it is fixed to. The fourth is the one most often left out, and it is the one that decides whether the job is a print or a print plus a mount. The A4 sheet below is drawn at true physical size; every larger size is the same geometry scaled.
No poster is drawn here at true size, and the arithmetic is only half the reason: A4 is the smallest size on this page and it is already wider than this column. The better reason is that a poster is designed to be read from one to three metres, and a screen is read from about sixty centimetres — so a true-size poster on a screen would be a poster seen at the one distance it will never be seen at, which teaches the opposite of what the page is for. The figures that actually decide a poster are the resolution at each viewing distance and the smallest type that survives it, and both are stated below.
150dpi
Enough at A1, read from a metre and a half. Resolution is set by viewing distance, not by the size of the sheet — a 300 dpi A0 file is four times the data nobody will ever see.
What to ask for
20 A1 posters 157 gsm gloss art paper 4C single-sided No lamination, no mounting 594 × 841 mm, 5 mm bleed Print-ready PDF at 150 dpi at final size Needed by — your date
The material
A poster is chosen by where it will hang. Behind glass, almost any paper will do. On a wall in a corridor it will be brushed past; near a kitchen or a lift lobby it will meet moisture. The edges below are drawn at the measured caliper of the weight named.
Also sold as gloss art, poster paper, coated text. Held at 128 and 157 gsm.
The default indoor poster. Rolls without cracking, lies flat once taped, and holds colour under fluorescent light.
Also sold as matt coated card, C2S matt. Held at 310, 350 and 400 gsm.
A poster that stands up on its own in a frame or on an easel without curling forward.
Also sold as synthetic paper, tear-resistant stock, PP sheet.
Not paper. It does not absorb water, does not tear along a fold, and does not go soft in humidity.
If the poster is going into a frame or a lightbox, say so with the enquiry — the stock changes, and a backlit poster on ordinary art paper looks grey rather than lit.The materials library
Mounting is not lamination. Film protects the face; a board gives it rigidity. A poster can have one, both or neither, and each is priced and scheduled separately.
A poster that will be up for a week needs nothing. A poster that will be up for a season needs film, because paper fades and scuffs. A poster that has to stand without a wall needs a board behind it, and that is a second material and a second operation.
| Finish | Tooling | What the reorder pays for |
|---|---|---|
| Round-corneringStandard radii, on a die held as stock tooling | None | Nothing to make, so nothing to remake. |
| Matt or gloss laminationSingle pass, both sides | None | Nothing to make, so nothing to remake. |
| Die-cuttingA forme is cut once, then kept for the reorder | Made once | Kept on file with your approved artwork. The reorder runs from it. |
| Mounting to boardFoam PVC, foam board or fluted polypropylene | None | Nothing to make, so nothing to remake. |
| EyeletsCorner eyelets for hanging. Needs a 20 mm margin allowance | None | Nothing to make, so nothing to remake. |
| Contour cuttingCut to an outline rather than a rectangle, from a vector cut path | Made once | Kept on file with your approved artwork. The reorder runs from it. |
Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
Every operation here is quoted inside the standard window. What changes between a first order and a second is the tooling: a die, a block or a screen is made once and then kept on file with your approved artwork, which is why the reorder of a job carrying one is a different job from the first.
The commonest poster mistake is a 300 dpi file at A0 — four times the data anyone will see, and a file too large to open on the day it is needed.
The A series halves at every step, so the proportion never changes and a design scales cleanly. What changes is the distance it is read from, and that is what should decide the type size and the file resolution.
The single most useful thing to know about a poster file is how far away it will be read from. Everything else — the resolution, the smallest type, the weight of a hairline — follows from that one number, and supplying it saves a file being rebuilt.
If the file is enormous, send it at half size at double the resolution and say so in the file name. It scales exactly and it opens on the day it is needed.
Turnaround
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days.
Standard orders. The schedule for specialist finishing is confirmed in your quotation.
Same-day printing available.
Subject to artwork, stock and production capacity confirmation. Timing is agreed for each job.
The mount is the constraint, not the quantity: twenty mounted posters are more work than a hundred loose ones, because every sheet is handled twice more. Both are quoted inside the same window, and the fourth line of a poster specification — what it is being fixed to — is the one most often left out.
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It depends on the viewing distance, not on the size. 300 dpi at A3 and closer, 200 dpi at A2, 150 dpi at A1 and 100 dpi at A0 read from three metres. A 300 dpi A0 file carries four times the detail the eye can use at that distance and is usually too large to handle on the day it is needed.
A0 at 841 × 1189 mm as a sheet size, and larger than that as a single piece on a roll. Above A0 the job becomes large-format printing and the substrate changes from paper to a vinyl, fabric or board.
Standard turnaround is 7–14 working days, and it is the same window whether the poster is loose, laminated, mounted to a board or eyeletted. What those change is the handling — each is a separate pass over every sheet — rather than the window the job is quoted in. Where a date is tighter, ask for an express quotation with the size, the stock and what the poster is being fixed to.
157 gsm gloss art paper for indoor display on a monthly cycle. 310–350 gsm matt art card where the poster has to stand in a frame without curling. Synthetic stock anywhere it will meet moisture, because it does not absorb water and does not go wavy.
About 24 pt at A1 and above. At two metres, 12 pt body copy reads as a grey block. Headlines want 60 pt and up. If the text has to be read close, it belongs on a flyer beside the poster rather than on it.
Yes — foam PVC, foam board or fluted polypropylene, with or without corner eyelets. Mounting is a separate pass and it needs a wider safe margin, because a mounted edge is trimmed after it is bonded rather than before.
Uncoated or lightly coated paper takes up moisture from the air unevenly and expands where it is damp. In Singapore that happens within days near an entrance, a kitchen or a lift lobby. Laminate it, mount it to a board, or print it on synthetic stock.
Yes, but say the poster is backlit when you send the specification. A backlit print needs a denser ink build and usually a different substrate; the same file printed for front lighting looks grey and flat once it is lit from behind.
Every job is quoted from its specification — stock, quantity, sides, finish, size and deadline.
Artwork is welcome but not required to start. Email sales@ezprint.com.sg if you would rather attach files.
